America's peaceful transfer of power will be made so with the help of a large security effort.

About 28,000 security officials will be deployed over 100 blocks of downtown Washington D.C. on Friday for President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, according to The Washington Post. Preparations include street and Metro station closings as a crowd approaching one million people is expected to flood the nation's capitol, along with 63 demonstrations groups of all stripes and 36 more on other days.

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Security may appear to be a larger concern for this inauguration, which follows a fiercely divisive election that has given way to harsh criticism and vitriol against Trump. Scott J. White, a professor and director of the cybersecurity program at George Washington University, said Trump’s use of Twitter and the language he uses have spurned outrage that poses new risks.

“There are elements of the president-elect’s behavior that may pose a slightly greater threat,” White told the Post. “I think his use of social media has a tendency to inflame people’s attitude toward him. And I think this particular method of engaging the public has definitely resulted in a different kind of adversary.”

But officials say the logistics and preparations behind the weekend's other events are similar to other inaugurations, with security measures including snipers on rooftops, trash cans and mailboxes being removed and multilevel perimeters arranged on the parade route and viewing areas.

“A lot of people think it’s different because of the individual,” said Jonathan Wackrow, a retired Secret Service agent who worked on President Obama’s inauguration in 2013 and now runs RANE, a security consulting group in New York, told the Post. “It’s very much the threat level as a whole.”

However, recent terrorist attacks on large crowds in Paris, Belgium and Berlin and close to home, highlight the challenges of security in 2017.

“We’re facing a more complex threat environment,” Paul Abbate, executive assistant director of the FBI, told CBS News. “Just in terms of the types of attacks that have occurred… things we’ve seen happen here in the United States and around the world.”